According to the British Journal of Pharmacology, the rats were able to balance and walk easier than animals with normal brain immune cell activity.

“When a mouse gets drunk,” says researcher Mark Hutchinson of the University of Adelaide, “it can’t work its motor co-ordination properly. If you stop these immune cells from working, the animals didn’t get drunk.”

One would expect that more testing is needed before being deemed safe for human use, but the future success of this research seems high.